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UCLA Offers New Green Building LEED Lab Course Beginning Fall 2020

UCLA Offers New Green Building LEED Lab Course Beginning Fall 2020

A yearlong course on sustainable-building design with a pathway toward professional certification made its debut this fall quarter, thanks to the collaborative efforts of student engineering club Bruin Home Solutions (BHS) along with UCLA faculty and staff.

Washington Post: Bringing the Chill of the Cosmos to a Warming Planet

Washington Post: Bringing the Chill of the Cosmos to a Warming Planet

The Washington Post recently featured Aaswath Raman, a UCLA Samueli assistant professor of materials science and engineering, and his research using natural radiative cooling to lower temperature without generating greenhouse gas emissions that plague our ecosystem.

Computer Science Alumna on Career at Google and YouTube

Computer Science Alumna on Career at Google and YouTube

After graduating from UCLA Samueli in 2018 with a degree in computer science, Apurva Panse joined Google as an associate product manager on ChromeOS. Today, she works at YouTube as a product manager on the “Responsibility” team. We caught up with Apurva to see how she’s doing.

UCLA Cryptographers Solve Two-Decade-Old Problem

UCLA Cryptographers Solve Two-Decade-Old Problem

A joint project sponsored by NTT Research with cryptographers from UCLA and University of Washington has solved a 20-year-old problem involving indistinguishability obfuscation.

Mechanical Engineering Alum Shares Insight on Life at Tesla

Mechanical Engineering Alum Shares Insight on Life at Tesla

Soon after graduating from UCLA Samueli in 2014 with a degree in mechanical engineering, Matt Kurihara joined Tesla as an intern. Six years later, he’s a senior mechanical design engineer at the company’s Palo Alto office. We caught up with him and see how he’s doing.